“In My World’ of voice over Movie Trailers

“In My World’ of voice over Movie Trailers

With Lake Bells film, In A World having great success, its started many a conversation about the voice-over industry. “All ears” are on the voices behind the movie trailers that were all so familiar with, that start out with the words, In a world… which the late Don La Fontaine made so famous. Its great to have a movie highlighting this fun and fascinating niche in the world of voice over acting. Lake Bell did a great job playing the unlikely heroine who competes against the big V.O. guns and succeeds where very few women have before. But the big question on female voice talents minds is, Why arent we still not voicing more of these? I was recently interviewed about that very issue for an article in Bloomberg Business Week, since Im one of the few lucky women who has actually voiced a trailer thats made it to the screen for Piranha 3D, one of last years summer releases. As the article mentions, there have been all kinds of answers to that question since the dawn of the movie trailer– that a mans voice commands attention and cuts through the clutter of explosions and car crashes and deeper voices are associated with more perceived intelligence and competence and finally, the old standby, Its the way its always been. Hopefully by shining a light on the fact that women are able to cut through and are able to sound great voicing a stereotypical action film, “In a World” will inspire the real industry to give more women the opportunity to break the glass ceiling of the movie trailer world. In the meantime, its wonderful that a woman wrote, directed, produced and starred in